BBC reports: A school has apologised for a data breach in which personal information about students was sent to their teenage classmates. Sixth-form pupils at Wymondham College, Norfolk, were mistakenly sent a link to a spreadsheet intended for teachers. It included data on whether pupils had special educational needs, whether they were “looked-after” children and…
Category: Non-U.S.
Some police officers breached data protection
New figures reveal five Jersey police officers have left the force in the past four years after snooping at islanders’ personal data. Three were dismissed and two resigned. Meanwhile in another case, one was reprimanded but kept their job, and another incident dating back two years still hasn’t been resolved. It’s led Deputy Mike Higgins…
KR: Out of the country? You’re out of luck: Expats left out in info leak case
Kim Tae-jong reports: Potentially hundreds of thousands of expatiates have been left out in cold in the largest financial data theft case in Korea’s history. Financial regulators as well as credit card firms and their parent banks have not provided any services for foreign credit card holders to check whether their data was leaked, nor…
20 million people fall victim to South Korea data leak; FSS calls on financial institutions to improve protections against insider leaks
AFP reports: The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country’s biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers’ data leaked in recent years, either by hacking attacks or their own employees. In…
UK: Will the ICO hold anyone responsible?
Jon Baines raises some interesting points in his discussion of a UK case where charges against police officers for violating the Data Protection Act were dropped in light of questions about whether they had ever been adequately trained to understand their responsibilities. Jon asks whether that situation should trigger an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s…
KC engineer ‘exposed unencrypted spreadsheet with phone numbers, user IDs, PASSWORDS’
Kelly Fiveash reports: Hull’s dominant telco, KC, is investigating revelations of what appears to be poor handling of the company’s customer data. This comes after a recent sign-up claimed one of its engineers had unwittingly exposed a customer spreadsheet containing the telephone numbers, user IDs and unencrypted passwords of all its subscribers. Read more on…